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It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

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I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

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I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

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The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the visual experience and the way that we approach it specifically on film.

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'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

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When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.

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'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

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You'll see in 'Carol' a lot of shots shot through windows, glass and awnings, with interruptions between where we are and where our object is. To me, I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and never completely attainable.

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We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that.

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I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 2nd, 1961

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